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State v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Peeler (2004), State v. Chasity West (2005)

38 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Delaware v. Fensterer · Nicholas v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Hernandez v. United States

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Slimskey , 257 Conn. 842 , 855-56, 779 A.2d 723 (2001). On appeal, the appellate tribunal reviews the confidential records to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in concluding that no information contained therein is”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “We are mindful that the restriction of a defendant's access to a witness' confidential records implicates the defendant's constitutional right to impeach and discredit state witnesses.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “especially probative of the victim's ability to know and correctly relate the truth so as to justify breaching their confidentiality in disclosing them to the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.